How I Got a Feeling with Piano

I have always wanted to learn how to play piano. It's been an item on my bucket list for years. But since 2021, it's no longer a wish. It has become a routine in my life. On average, I practice 3 - 5 times a week, one to two sessions daily, each ranging from 15 - 45 mins. I've transformed myself from a beginner into an intermediate player after months of practice.

I don't have a personal tutor; the tutorial money goes to my daughter. She has a weekly session with the tutor. She will go to a soundproof piano room to practice with the guidance of a tutor for 30-min. Most of the other time, she had to practice at home. I want the practice to become her ritual because I believe playing piano is a perfect medium to teach her about discipline and the mastery of a skillset.

I have a very strong Why to learn piano. It's not just having fun for myself. It's also for my daughter's education. I'm showcasing to her:

Anyone can learn Anything at any Age

The necessary How falls into place. I don't have the luxury of learning the way my daughter does though. I'm a solopreneur of my own startup. My schedule is flexible because I don't have complete control of it. In a collaborative environment with vendors and clients, I learn to play piano at my own pace with Simply Piano.

Simply is a product suite of multiple apps. You can learn not only how to play piano but also guitar, and even how to sing and draw. The annual subscription fee for one app costs about the amount of two tutorial lessons for my daughter. It's very cheap. But the quality is exceptionally high. The feedback the app gives me regarding my performance is instant. IMHO, I'd prefer a machine-human feedback loop rather than a human-human one. The reason is obvious: well-designed software doesn't tolerate any room for error and it translates into a better quality of self-learning.

I create a profile for myself and another one for my daughter.

We can separate our learning pace within the app. It's a very important feature as we can take different paths in our separate profiles. Depending on our interests, we can take on either Chords or the Soloist path, the one that I'm taking.

To prove to her I can actually play music with the piano after months of practice. This is what I did with a song by Black Eyed Peas.